Today, Chelsea Manning released a 129-page surveillance reform bill representing concrete alternatives and policy changes. The bill proposes the abolition of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, moves the surveillance court powers into federal district courts, and contains a privacy and civil liberties-friendly version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA).

“If Congress did abolish the Fisa courts, the Second Circuit ruling earlier this year would no longer be symbolic. In spirit and in law, the entire surveillance review system would end up where it probably should have started in the first place after the Church Committee: in a tried and true, real and historically viable court system. And the American people could have more faith that our judicial branch wasn¹t completely beholden to structures put into place by the executive and legislative branches to limit accountability.”

The digital rights group Fight for the Future just launched a petition telling lawmaker¹s to read Chelsea Manning¹s bill at https://www.freechelsea.com/.

The petition reads:

"Dear legislator: I am deeply concerned about the U.S. government's mass surveillance programs that violate American citizens' 1st and 4th amendment constitutional rights and the human rights of people around the world. Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has written a bill that is intended to address these privacy concerns and fix our nation's broken surveillance policies. I strongly encourage you to read Chelsea's bill and take her analysis into account on all votes related to privacy and surveillance."